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2008 Laureates

The DAN DAVID PRIZE annually awards 3 prizes of US$ 1 million each for achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world. Each year fields are chosen within the three Time Dimensions - Past, Present and Future. The laureates for a given year are chosen from these fields.

Social Responsibility
with Particular Emphasis on the Environment

The 2007 Dan David Prize laureate, Dr. James Hansen said, in his address during the prize award ceremony the following: "Civilization developed in a time of stable climate and stable sea level. Earth was warm enough to keep ice sheets off North America and Europe, cool enough to keep ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica. Burning all fossil fuels assuredly will cause cataclysms on West Antarctica and Greenland, large sea level rise, shifting of climatic zones, and extermination of many of our fellow creatures on Earth". Desertification, poverty and starvation are only some consequences of this disaster.

Prompt sensible actions are needed to avoid the imminent danger of global warming to our planet as portrayed so vividly by Dr. Hansen.

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A concerted effort by international leaders can provide long-term standards, policies and solutions, which will enable the transition from carbon-emitting fossil fuels to innovative clean, renewable energy and significantly address the attendant issues of conservation, recycling, the ozone layer, air and water quality and endangered species.

The 2008 Dan David Prize in the Present Time Dimension will be awarded to an individual or institution that has manifested social responsibility and strong leadership in creating an awareness of and proposing/implementing solutions to the catastrophe facing our environment.

Al Gore

Al Gore is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide awareness of the detrimental effects that man’s energy consumption has had on the environment, and the imperative for individuals and governments to take drastic action to avert climatic disaster.

Gore has been a tireless advocate for the environment throughout his career; as United States Senator, as Vice President of the United States and more recently as a private citizen. He has eloquently sounded the alarm on the importance of the threat to the global ecosystem posed by the world’s current and increasing reliance on carbon dioxide emitting fossil fuels as its primary energy source. His book, "Earth in the Balance", first published in 1992, translated since into many languages, remains a classic, not only a call to action but also an important educational resource. The Oscar winning movie he produced more recently and in which he starred, "An Inconvenient Truth", has carried the message to an even larger audience.

His interest in climate change dates back to his time as an undergraduate at Harvard University when he took a course from the late Roger Revelle. Revelle first introduced him to the now famous Keeling curve, the steadily rising record of atmospheric CO2. This experience sparked a lifelong interest in environmental science.

Although Gore had little formal education in science, he has devoted his life to learning and understanding the complex science that underlies the function of the global life support system, and specifically the climate system. He is dedicated to communicating the nature of this science to the general public.

The 2008 Dan David Prize honors Al Gore in the field of Social Responsibility with Particular Emphasis on the Environment for his multiple contributions in raising the conscience of the world to the challenge posed to the continuing sustainable function of the global environment and life support system

Geosciences

The geosciences address all issues relating to Earth Systems, including the solid Earth, oceans, and atmosphere. The major applications of the geosciences are: exploration and development of natural resources (oil, gas, coal, minerals, construction aggregate, water, soil), preservation of the natural environment, restoration from environmental damage, mitigation of geohazards such as Earthquakes and landslides, and several categories of exploratory research.

Though much has been learned about the Earth through geosciences, much more is yet to be discovered, especially as new problems face society, such as global climate change, advances in technology, and exhaustion of energy and raw material supplies.

Geoscientists explore the depths of the oceans and the core of the earth to the outer reaches of space. The issues addressed by them include trends in global warming and questions such as: How and where should we dispose of industrial wastes? How can we satisfy society’s growing demands for energy, yet conserve natural resources?

Geoscientists discover and develop supplies of fossil fuels, groundwater, construction materials and mineral ores. They study geohazards such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, and landslides and the mitigation of geohazards. Their findings impact policies for resource management, environmental protection, public health, safety, and welfare.

The 2008 Dan David Prize for the Future Time Dimension will be awarded to an individual or organization that has provided seminal, innovative and crucial findings in the field of geosciences.

Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie G. Thompson

Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson, Professors at the Ohio State University, USA, are a scientific team, each providing an important contribution to the final product. Together, as a team, they have authored 150 papers using materials preserved in ice cores from Antarctica to Greenland.

Lonnie Thompson leads the field operations on high-altitude tropical glaciers. Ellen Mosley-Thompson conducts field and laboratory programs and reconstructs the conditions recorded by the ice. The analytical work on the ice cores required major advances in the art of sampling and measuring small samples. These high-resolution records provide unique histories of remote regions, the roles of atmospheric dust and volcanic aerosols, abrupt changes in the global environment, and the impact of such environmental changes upon human activities.

Lonnie Thompson samples deep ice on Earth’s most daunting peaks and created the field of high-alpine tropical paleoclimatology. He showed that it was possible to get deep cores from high peaks, transport, to preserve them during transport through tropical jungles, and to extract ancient signals from them. He demonstrated that the tropical world is climatically more volatile than previously believed.

The ice core record of Earth history is the ultimate yardstick against which present and projected future anthropogenic effects is assessed. Ice contains wind blown dust, sand, volcanic ash, aerosols, and pollen from around the globe, and it traps air. Ice core histories from Africa, Antarctica, Bolivia, China, Greenland, Peru, Russia, Heard Island and the United States have made it possible to link polar and low latitude-high elevation processes.

Drs. Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson have been awarded, either jointly or individually the Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award, the John C. Marshall Award of Marshall University, the Common Wealth Award for Science and Invention (the award recognizes distinguished service to the world community), the National Medal of Science (LGT), Tyler Prize (LGT), the World Prize for Environmental Achievement (LGT), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Science of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (LGT) and the Vega Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (LGT). The Mosley-Thompson Cirques (Antarctica) are named for Ellen Mosley-Thompson.

They have approximately 150 peer-reviewed joint publications. More than 20 of these have been cited more than 20 times. They have led 58 field programs.

The 2008 Dan David Prize honors Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie G. Thompson, jointly, in the field of Geosciences for their separate and joint efforts in studying the geological and environmental records in ice cores ranging from the polar regions to the highest tropical and subtropical mountains on six continents and remote islands; and for providing high-resolution environmental histories that contribute to the understanding of complex interactions in the Earth’s outer envelopes, such as the fast melting of mountain glaciers worldwide and the retreat and disintegration of polar icecaps.

Interesting choices, no?

See the fun with Lonnie & co. had by Climate Audit trying to access his data, how Lonnie, as Al’s advisor, failed to even acknowledge Al wasn’t using his data at all but using as supporting evidence for the veracity of the hokey Hockey Stick graph… the hokey Hockey Stick graph!

But it does pay well.

 

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